Drinking Water Treatment by Bulgarian Products in Bulgaria and Turkey
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DRINKING WATER TREATMENT BY BULGARIAN PRODUCTS IN BULGARIA AND TURKEY Christo Dobrev Solvo-Ltd, Mladost 1, bl. 13, Sofia 1784, Bulgaria Galia Bardarska Institute of Water Problems, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, str. Acad. G. Bonchev bl.1, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria Goksel Akcin Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey ABSTRACT Drinking water treatment by aluminum sulphate has not only technical disadvantages but also health risks. The recently postulated apparent association between aluminium levels in the brain with Alzheimer’s disease and the distressing aftermath of the Camelford incident, has thrown open the question of the magnitude of any risk from aluminium exposure in drinking water. Doubts have also arisen about the safety, using the flocculents based on polyacrylamide. The reason is its acrylamide monomer content. For these valid reasons the new Bulgarian coagulant OAX-15 has been created in the 1976 (Kungl Patent 77 12594-6-OCH, 1982 and Patent 61018-OCH, 1987). The drinking water station “ Kamchia”, supplied the Black Sea cities Varna and Burgas, first changed the aluminium sulphate by OAX-15. The author of this paper, rendering an account the additional necessity of flocculents or sorbents for some heavy polluted waters, made one new revised Bulgarian product CFS-Solvo (Sanitary certificate, 1995). Jar-tests and physic-chemical treatment in the Bulgarian and Turkey drinking water stations showed the effectiveness of the CFS-Solvo for elimination of turbidity, colour, oxydizability, arsenium, manganese, heavy metals, plankton etc. for water temperature from 10C to 30 0C. The measured value of residual aluminium was from 0,0 to 0,1 mg/l. In the paper are discussed the technological and sanitary priorities of CFS drinking water treatment over the aluminium sulphate treatment. The results are very perspective for quality amelioration of drinking waters on the Black Sea coast. KEYWORDS Drinking water treatment, coagulation, aluminum sulfate, polyaluminum chloride, Coagulant-flocculent-sorbent CFS, INTRODUCTION The coagulation is the basic stage of drinking water treatment. Last century different types of coagulants and flocculents has been used but the most common coagulants are based on inorganic hydrolization salts. Aluminum sulfate is more frequently applicated coagulant of this class. Its drinking water usage is related with very big exploitation disadvantages and higher health risk. The limited working scopes of pH and temperature hamper the creation of stable flocculation particles with necessary dimensions. Very often at the temperature below 10 oC and pH outside of 7 – 8 the bad flocculation process costs a second coagulation into the filters and pipes after the stations. This effect makes drinking water worse and blocks very fast the filter layers. At the drinking water stations with stabilization stage the aluminum sulfate’s coagulation is embarrassed. Health risk – the content of aluminum higher than 0.2 mg/l in the treated water is observed when the optimum conditions are drawed away (Association General des Hygienists et Technicians Municipals, 1987). The recently postulated apparent association between aluminum levels in the brain with Alzheimer’s disease and the distressing aftermath of the Camelford incident, has thrown open the question of the magnitude of any risk from aluminum exposure in drinking water (Holdsworth, 1991). These shortcomings impose the looking for and finding out the polyaluminum chloride as one of the alternative coagulant (Kogyo Yosui,1974). PRODUCTION OF CFS-SOLVO® At the second part of seventeen the production of Bulgarian polyaluminum chloride OAX-15 was done (Patent 77 12594-6-OCH, 1982 and Patent 61018-OCH,1987). Former capacity productions were as follows: factory “Sviloza”, town Svichtov – 5000 t/y and Ecological Technique Center, town Burgas- 2500 t/y. The technology of AOCl-15 production is as follows: in the intern electrolyse conditions a metallic aluminium is dissolved by HCl. 3+ The metallic aluminum is nonstable thermodynamically - transformation into water solution as Al(H2O)6 at salinity acid circle. Different polynuclears aquahydroxoaluminum complex ions are formed as a result of polycodensation processes. The reaction between aluminum and HCl in water circle is very complicated and debatabled. In this paper the reaction is described provisionally as follows: 2Al+ 6HCl = 2AlCl3 + 3H2 (1) 3+ (3x-y)+ + x[Al(H2O)6] = Alx(OH)y(H2O)2(3x-y)] +yH3O (2) At 1994 on the base of preliminary experience of polyaluminum chloride synthesis the Solvo-Ltd, town Sofia, was beginning the production of very effective coagulant-flocculent-sorbent CFS-Solvo. CFS is done on the base of polyaluminum chloride and its description very generally is : xAl2O3.yHCl.zH2O (x=1, y=0.9-2, z=4-85); M=y/x (3) CFS solution is stable at middle and high concentrations including also the glassy state. After alkalisation or dilution the hydrolic processes begin to leak. As a result are obtained decantabled very small soluble hydroxosalts and aluminum hydroxide. Received hydrolysed products have not only sorbtion ability but also an ability of codecantation of different particles by type and dimension. At 1994 Solvo Ltd, town Sofia, designed and investigated a new apparatus for CFS’s electrochemical synthesis at very high level of process regulation and energy utilisation (Fig. 1). On the base of the first constructed apparatus Solvo Ltd created the module industrial installation for CFS production. Each installed module at open air condition produces 2 t/d CFS. CFS has sanitary permition for treatment of drinking and waste waters (Sanitary certificate,1995). FIG. 1. SCHEME OF TECHNOLOGY FOR CFS’S PRODUCTION: 1- REACTION CHAMBER, 2- HCL TANK AND 3 – CFS TANK DETERMINATION OF CFS DOSES Determination of CFS’s dose is made by the quantity of active product as Al2O3. This method of calculation is obligatory because CFS is nonstechiometric product – without any exact molecule weight. Also, the comparison with aluminum sulfate’s doses have to be done by Al2O3 content. The procedure of CFS Jar-test is as follows: To one liter of simple waters it has to be added different doses of trade product CFS. It’s not preferable a preliminary dilution of CFS by water. The reason is a big damage of CFS’s hydrolization before entering into treated water. Two stages of CFS Jar-test is necessary: ♦ 30 min. slow mixture ( about 20 tours/min); ♦ 30 min decantation. Very good decantated water has to be taken for water analysis. Calculation of CFS’s dose is made on the base of the relation between density, acidity M (M=mol HCl/mol Al2O3) and percentage content of Al2O3 (Fig.2). 2,0 1,25 1,8 CFS 1,6 1,4 1,2 1,1 1,20 1,0 0,9 M 1,15 Density, d, [g/ml] d, Density, 1,10 1,05 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Contains Al2O3 [%] FIG. 2. RELATION BETWEEN DENSITY, ACIDITY AND AL2O3 OF CFS SOLUTION CFS’s application at drinking water stations doesn’t need a preliminary dilution or an intensive mixture. CFS can be used not only alone. It’s possible to combine the CFS with other chemical products. For example, we describe the Jar-test of dam Iskar’s waters by CFS and Al2(SO4)3.18H2O, made at 03.01.1995 to the Laboratory of drinking water station “Pancharevo”, town Sofia. The concentrations and the relatively weights of two products are shown in the Table 1. TABLE 1 CONCENTRATION AND DENSITY OF CFS AND ALUMINUM SULFATE – TRADE PRODUCTS Type of product Concentration [%] Density [g/cm3] Al2O3 Al2(SO4)3 CFS13 13 1.18 CFS10 10 1.14 AS = Al2(SO4)3 6.3 21.1 1.17 Data for applicable doses and purification effects of dam “Iskar” water (pH 7.0, turbidity 3.9 mg/l, color o 22 , oxydability 1.8 mg O2/l and manganese 0.37 mg/l) by Aluminum sulfate and CFS are done in Tables 2,3.. TABLE 2 CALCULATION OF DOSES, CORRESPONDING TO 2.3 mg Al2O3/l No Water test by DOSES Total CFS Al2(SO4)3 ml/l mg/l Al2O3 ml/l mg/l AS Al2O3 Al2O3 (dm/m3) (g/m3) mg/l (dm/m3) (g/m3) mg/l mg/l mg/l 1 CFS13 0.015 17.7 2.30 - - - - 2.30 2 CFS10 0.020 22.8 2.28 - - - - 2.28 3 AS - - - 0.031 36.3 7.67 2.29 2.29 4 CFS10+AS 0.006 6.84 0.68 0.022 25.7 5.42 1.62 2.30 5 AS+ CFS10 0.006 6.84 0.68 0.022 25.7 5.42 1.62 2.30 TABLE 3 JAR-TESTS OF DAM “ISKAR” WATER BY ALUMINUM SULFATE AND CFS AT DRINKING WATER STATION “PANCHAREVO”, TOWN SOFIA Water test by Quality of treated water pH Turbidity Color Oxydability Manganese Value Effect Value Effect Value Effect Value Effect o mg/l % Rubyov % mgO2/l % mg/l % 0 Dam water 7.0 3.9 - 22 - 1.80 - 0.37 - 1 CFS13 7.0 1.1 72 3 86 1.22 32 0.19 49 2 CFS10 7.0 1.4 64 3 86 1.22 32 0.22 40 3 AS 6.9 1.7 56 6 73 1.36 24 0.22 40 4 CFS10+AS 7.0 1.2 69 4 82 1.30 28 0.20 46 5 AS+ CFS10 7.0 1.1 72 3 86 1.22 32 0.22 40 49% elimination effect of manganese is explained by low water turbidity (3.9 mg/l). Former investigations at drinking water station “Pancharevo” created the exact diagram between dam water turbidity and manganese elimination effect (Fig. 3). 100 Manganese 90 80 70 60 50 40 Cleaning effect [%] 30 20 0 5 10 15 20 Water turbidity [mg/l] FIG.3.